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Trump Just Admitted That Not a Single One of His 59 Tomahawk Missiles Hit a Syrian Runway
‘It’s What They Teach You on Day 1 at Trump Military College’
President Donald Trump just admitted that not one of the 59 Tomahawk missiles he directed to attack a Syrian military airbase actually hit a runway. Immediately after news broke that Trump had done a “180” and deviated from his previously stated policy of non-intervention into Syria, many across the news media hailed Trump as “presidential,” but now that focus and motivation of his attack seems to have been both without any policy intent, and to redirect the political conversation stateside away from his Russia tribulations.
Saturday afternoon, after spending more than five hours on his golf course at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump posted a rather defensive tweet that appeared to attack those who have been questioning why his attack on Syria did not take out the runways, after he had bragged the airbase he had hit was the one from which chemical nerve agents, likely sarin gas, were used by President Bashar al-Asssad on his own people.
Some have called it an “empty political gesture.”
“The reason you don’t generally hit runways is that they are easy and inexpensive to quickly fix (fill in and top)!” Trump tweeted.
There are reports that within hours of Trump’s attack Assad’s planes were once again taking off from the airfield.
On Twitter, many pushed back on Trump’s defensive claim:
It’s what they teach you on Day 1 at Trump Military College https://t.co/T5D3qitMYu
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump @Scavino45 We all know the real reason for your attack. You wanted to bring up your poll numbers & steal the oil in Syria. pic.twitter.com/4kVfE7LAEm
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) April 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump That makes sense. So now it looks like you “oppose” Putin, without much collateral damage. I mean, you don’t care abt human lives anyway.
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) April 8, 2017
Check out General Patton here. https://t.co/4gaJFBhzma
— Jason Sparks (@sparksjls) April 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Someone’s never heard of anti-runway penetration munitions.
— Joe Papp (@joepabike) April 8, 2017
So you bombed an enemy country’s air base and warned their closest ally first and you didn’t EVEN DAMAGE THE RUNWAY #Idiot https://t.co/iivvtGkWEa
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump How did the strike on the airfield help the Syrian people? Bashar al-Assad continued his attacks this morning.
— Rob Szczerba (@RJSzczerba) April 8, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Did Putin tell you he would be upset if you bombed the runway? He did, didn’t he?https://t.co/JcxySaaxKu
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 8, 2017
So, Trump warned the Russians, who warned the Syrians, who evacuated their jets… and then Trump didn’t target the runways anyway?
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) April 8, 2017
“Hey Donny, what do you want to play today?â€
“I want to play Seabee!†https://t.co/9xVlH23fil
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 8, 2017
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